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Martin J. Lohse
Visiting Professor, Molecular & Cellular Physiology
BioMartin Lohse studied medicine and philosophy at the universities of Göttingen (Germany), London (UK) and Paris (France). From 1978 to 1981 he did his MD thesis in the Department of Neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry with Otto Creutzfeldt and Wolfgang Wuttke investigating the central nervous system effects of endogenous opiates. He was a postdoc in pharmacology with Ulrich Schwabe at the University of Heidelberg, and then with Robert J. Lefkowitz (HHMI, Duke University), where he later became an Assistant Professor. From Duke he moved to his first independent lab at the Gene Center in Munich/Martinsried, a new research center operated jointly by the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry and the University of Munich. In 1993, he became Chair of the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Würzburg, and remained a professor at this university until his retirement in 2022. In Würzburg, he founded the Rudolf Virchow Center, the DFG Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine (2001-2016), and he became also the founding director of the University of Würzburg Graduate School (2003-2016).
From 2016 to 2019 he served as Chairman of the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, a national research center for molecular medicine. In 2020, while keeping his lab in Berlin, he moved back to Bavaria to establish and lead the new start-up institute/incubator ISAR Bioscience in Munich/Planegg, that aims to use stem cell technologies to advance academic projects towards clinical applications and to foster the formation of start-up companies.
Martin Lohse has accepted many public and professional service duties. He was a member of the German National Ethics Council, Vice President for Research of the University of Würzburg, Vice President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and President of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians GDNÄ. He has been a member and chair of numerous scientific advisory boards across Europe. He holds honorary, senior and distinguished professorships at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Leipzig, and the Technical University of Munich TUM. At the Department for Molecular and Cellular Physiology of Stanford University he collaborates with the teams of Brian Kobilka and Ruth Hüttenhain to probe the local environment of receptors and its function and regulation.
